Enslaved fugitives referred to the Ohio River as the River Jordan. It was a metaphor for freedom like the Israelites’ flight from slavery in Egypt through the parted waters of the Red Sea. Except the ...

Although “I Am Nobody’s Slave” takes the form of a memoir, Minnesota native Lee Hawkins’ book becomes something bigger: an ...

And just like that, Ejiofor was cast as Mr. Wallaker, a pragmatic science teacher, in Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, the ...

Listen to a short summary Read by Guy R. Your browser does not support the audio element.The theme for Black History Month ...

My military service saw my allegiance to six different presidents over almost 40 years in uniform. I didn’t always agree with ...

The effort to name the House Press Gallery after abolitionist Frederick Douglass is getting a push forward as Rep. Byron ...

With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones encouraged students at Susquehanna University to be well-informed activists. “Us not being informed is what got us to where we are today,” she ...

When the 13th Amendment abolished slavery but allowed the exception as punishment for convicted crimes, California followed ...

Thailand's army says some 260 people believed to have been trafficked and trapped into working in online scam centers are to be repatriated after they were rescued from Myanmar.

Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) teared up while reintroducing a reparations bill, taking up the late Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee's mantel.

With all the tumult surrounding the beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term, there is once again an uptick in talk ...